US History Q3 Review

Why did MLK advocate nonviolent protest to resist segregation and oppression?

• he believed it would be more effective to resist evil

• he believed violence should come later

• he was willing to accept racial segregation and oppression

• he though hatred of the oppressors would be sufficient

What effect did the D-Day invasion have on WWII?

• Turned the war in favor of the Germans

• Forced the Germans to fight the war on 2 fronts

• Established France as a superpower

• Diverted attention from the Pacific, causing Japan to retake land

How did McCarthyism intensify Cold War tensions?

• It directly caused the US involvement in the Korean War

• It encouraged honesty and openness in government

• It increased employment rates in every industry

• It increased fear and mistrust among Americans

The Marshall Plan succeeded in providing

• military aid to Eastern Europe

• Economic aid to Western Europe

• increased political stability in the US

• support for the struggling nations of Eastern Europe

What limited the US response to the Holocaust during WWII?

• focus of US resources on defeating Hitler

• The US had no idea the Holocaust was happening

• the nation had always let in all of the Jewish people who immigrated

• Roosevelt's establishment of the War Refugee board

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination by employers based on what?

• race

• gender

• national origin

• All of these

Which best describes Japans attack on Pearl Harbor?

• An overwhelming success because it knocked the US out of the war

• An overwhelming failure because it did almost no damage to the US Navy

• It could have been more damaging had the Japanese knocked out more of the US Navy

• It had almost no impact on the decisions made by Japan or America

What was Hitler's "final solution"?

• A plan to exterminate all Jews living in the Third Reich

• A series of fake experiments conducted on topics like oxygen deprivation

• The construction of walled ghettos in Polish cities

• A plan to force all Jews to become useful members of the Third Reich

What practice was ruled unconstitutional by the Brown vs. Board ruling?

• enforcing unofficial segregation

• enforcing the Southern Manifesto

• creating separate but equal/unequal schools

• creating a White Citizens Council

Anne Frank wrote about Westerbork in her diary... it was a

• concentration camp

• a military training ground

• a codename for an Allied invasion

• the name of a mission to free Jews from Germany